Tim Harford collected some good insights on this in the Automation chapter of his book "Messy: How to Be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World". The es

Tim Harford collected some good insights on this in the Automation chapter of his book "Messy: How to Be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World". The essence of his complaint revolves around Air France Flight 447 and attributes the incident partially to the lack of experience the pilot had flying manually. Essentially, the idea is that an autonomous vehicle allows the operator to relax, right up until the point at which it fails - leaving the operator with a difficult situation and a lack of skill to deal with it. Of course it also removes a whole range of more routine errors that could have been fatal. There are a couple of ideas on how to solve the problem, but I'll let you read the excerpt yourself rather than parroting it here: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QPMeCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT121&lpg=PT121#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QPMeCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT121&lp...